By T S Sekaran Published: 26th September 2014 The New Indian Express
CHENNAI: Dr V K Saraswat, former Scientific Adviser to the Minister of Defence and Director General, DRDO and Dr G Malakondaiah, former Director of DMRL in Hyderabad have been ordered to undergo simple imprisonment for three weeks by the Madras High Court for not obeying the court’s orders passed way back in in 2009.
A division bench of justices S Rajeswaran and P N Prakash awarded the punishment while allowing a contempt application from S Joseph Raj, on Wednesday.
Raj lost his job as the school in which he was working as a librarian was closed. Holding that he was not a Central government employee, the government refused to reinstate him. Confirming the orders of the Central Administrative Tribunal, a division bench of the Madras High Court had directed the government to consider Raj for the post of Senior Technical Assistant.
Contending that this order had not been complied with, Raj filed the present contempt petition. “Even though an appointment order had been issued on July 14, 2009 to Joseph Raj, the duo did not allow him to join duty. Thereafter, they suppressed this fact before the Supreme Court. Therefore, we find that the duo have wilfully disobeyed the orders of this court,” the court said in its order.
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Dr. G. S. Johar says
SARASWAT—AN HABITUAL CONTEMNOR : Kudos to Madras High Court for its landmark, strictest, as well as highly justified order passed on September 25, leading to the sentencing for three weeks of jail term for the DRDO chief, V. K. Saraswat for disobeying a 2009 court order. In fact this is not the first time that V. K. Saraswat—a man of false pride– has committed contempt of the HC. The Allahabad bench of the Allahabad High Court had, in the year 2010, also found Saraswat guilty of willful and deliberate act for committing contempt of the court, and had started contempt proceedings against him for defying HC’s order dated 06-2-2009. As an opposite party, the case related to me, wherein I had personally deposed before the HC for initiating contempt proceedings against. Saraswat. My wrenching story of oppression and coercion relating to the forcible occupation of my patentable piece of research by the autocratic Govt. body—DRDO—is still continuing for the past 28 years without any restitution, in utter violation of Patents Act-1970. My research work is still being used by the DRDO, without paying any compensation/solatiom to the innovator. This is all because of the hegemony of Saraswat. Had similar victimization happened to a person of political connection, he would have easily got a compensation of multi-crores of rupees by now.